February 26, 2014

SO THAT WHOLE FISH/BICYCLE THING WAS BASICALLY A BUNCH OF CRAP, HUH? The Atlantic: Why Dads Matter. “The time a dad spends with his children is a particularly strong predictor of how empathetic a child will become, according to commission of experts who wrote a proposal asking President Obama to create a White House Council on Boys and Men. The group, which Farrell helped assemble, compiled research showing infants with dads living at home were months ahead in personal and social development. Children who lack contact with fathers are more likely to be treated for emotional or behavioral problems. Girls with absent or indifferent fathers are more prone to hyperactivity. If dad is around, girls are less likely to become pregnant as teens. As early as 1993, studies showed that dads also influenced whether their sons became teenage fathers. A Temple University study found no boys born to teen mothers became teen fathers if they had close relationships with their biological fathers, compared to 15 percent of those who didn’t have that closeness.”

It was 'Atlantic' that published the spot-on 'Dan Qayle Was Right' article in 1993. Now that gays and straights may marry by law, it's time to end the de facto ban on marriage in key minority communities. Keep in mind that fundamental black culture values marriage. Before World War II, a higher percentage of black Americans married than white Americans.

I just read a good hunk of that article, and I'll go back to it later. But wow, what a difference from the patchwork families myth that is propagated. It also illustrates the upper middle class bubble that hides the real problems in lower class families. The article gives evidence of what I have always believed, but it is so good to have support and confirmation that I am not some kind of right wing neanderthal.

*sigh* It's getting to the point my fantasies don't involve scantily clad nubile women, but instead are set in a post-apocalyptic dystopian Manhattan, where thousands of militantly anti-male feminists are forcefully reminded of the reason a woman would ever consider shackling herself to something so cloddish and useless as some hulking, hairy-backed man...and I get to ignore their bleating when they come begging for protection. (This "Orgy in Schadenfreude World" fantasy is also perfectly interchangeable with enemies of the 2nd Amendment.)

We (that is, conservatives) may have data on our side, but, to progressives, ideology trumps facts. "Choice" is an article of faith, be it with respect to abortion, or having kids without a dad around -- and to the extent that fatherless kids seem to be worse off, their answer is always for the government to spend more money. And given such a belief, you simply can't disprove the disposability of fathers anymore than you could disprove the existence of God to a believer.http://janetheactuary.blogspot.com/2014/02/just-another-lifestyle-choice.html

I'd be surprised to see this published in The Atlantic, except that it's part of a trade-off arrangement with the Deseret News. I think they each get to have 2 articles on the subject published in each other's publication. At the bottom of the article it states,"This story is part of The Father Factor, a series, produced in collaboration with the Deseret News, on the role of dads in American society today." The two writers are from the Deseret News.

Another reason the south will rise again.... I have raised two young men that are real men. They are respectful to women while knowing the difference. Eff the northeast and let them starve to death in the dark.

Howdy RouxThe issue seems to have much more to do with poverty and dependency than it does on regions of the country. People from all over the country teach their children to be respectful and to expect the same. And people from all over the country fail to do it.

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